Assistant Lecturer Alaa Ghaffar Hussein Bassee

Borders and Freedom, Autonomy and Postcolonial Subjectivity in Mohsin Hamid's Exit West

In this paper I examine Mohsin Hamid’s novel Exit West, in which abrupt transnational portals of magical realism lay bare ongoing political, economic, and psychological hurdles to twenty-first-century migration through a broad postcolonial lens. The doors democratize mobility across geographies, circumventing real phys...